We again will be planting some vegetables soon and eating some fresh this summer. The rest will be canned for next winter. Even if you don’t have space for a garden, you can do a container garden or a hydroponic garden. Every little bit helps with these produce prices.
We are watching our water consumption. We never just let the water run down the sink. We close the sink up when we wash or rinse dishes. Rinse water can be used to water outside. I do the same with pasta water. We don’t waste. When I brush my teeth, I wet the brush then turn the water off. I just turn it back on to rinse. We have low flow toilets so we don’t have to worry about that water. In other houses when we just had standard toilets, we put a brick or a bottle in the tank to displace some of the water. I take navy showers. I use water to wet down, turn the water off, soap up, turn the water on, then rinse.
We only wash clothes once a week on the Eco cycle with cold water. I do another load for towels and sheets. I only use hot or warm for really messy things. We never wash anything but a full load. I hang dry most of our clothing.
The dishwasher is never run until it is really full.
Today, I will be cleaning out my chest freezer so that I can defrost it. It needs it to function properly and it uses less power when it doesn’t have ice on the walls. I also want to put some of the butter that I got on sale at Aldi’s a couple of weeks ago in the freezer to get it out of my refrigerator. I don’t want it to spoil.
I also will be making enough from scratch blueberry pancakes to last a week or so in my electric fry pan. I have gallon bags of blueberries in the freezer that were purchased on sale in season last summer. Time to start using them up to make room for the new supply this August.
We are getting low on bread and Hubby likes sandwiches for his lunch. So he will make a loaf in the breadmaker. It is so much cheaper to make it from scratch than to buy it and it tastes a lot better too.
Leftover pasta and meatballs is on the menu tonight. I think I will make a beef stew tomorrow in the crockpot. I want to use up those large roasts before the weather gets really warm. That will last us the weekend and into next week. I am really enjoying not having to cook every night. It gives me more time to get the spring cleaning done and the windows washed.
I will also be making some more Keto ice cream. The Keto ice cream you buy in the market is so awful and hard to scoop out. The recipe I use makes ice cream that is more like scooping regular ice cream and is so delicious and it’s easy. We need a treat for football this weekend.
Last night I perused the ads for next week. I didn’t see much that I need to buy or will pay the price for. We have the basics here so we don’t need much. Cooking from scratch with simple ingredients purchased in bulk is so much cheaper than buying items for complicated and expensive recipes.
It’s time for me to get my work done today. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I will be back posting on Monday.
2 replies on “How We Are Dealing With Inflation( continued from yesterday)”
Hi Precious. Hubby is going to plant a garden again also. This week was laundry week here and it took me some extra days to get it done with being sick, but I just kept at it a few loads a day and it is done now. I am like you and try to get all done in one day. I have been experimenting with doing more cold washes since I read you writing you do this, and it was a good suggestion.
We love blueberry pancakes, too. Hubby needs to make more for me to freeze for older granddaughter for an after school snack. He makes the smaller ones for her, and it has always been her favorite. We have never owned a bread machine, I might have to think about that. I will see if either of my kids have and maybe borrow for awhile to see if we would really use it or not.
Hi Chris,
I have been doing laundry in cold water for years. It gets just as clean as with warm. I only use hot for while cleaning rags.
Freezing those pancakes as an after school snack is a great idea.
I am so glad that you are well again.